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Patented Aug. 4, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFiCE CASH REGISTER Application September 9, 1931, Serial No. 561,953

42 Claims.

This invention relates to registering and recording mechanisms, and is more particularly directed to improvements in mechanisms for selecting any of a plurality of columns and printing in the selected column or columns.

The invention is herein shown embodied in a machine of the type illustrated and described in Letters Patent of the United States, No. 1,242,170, granted to F. L. Fuller on October 9, 1917, and No. 1,619,796, granted to B. M. Shipley on March 1, 1927, and in the application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 576,924, filed July 24, 1922, of B. M. Shipley, now Patent No. 1,840,639, granted January 12, 1932.

The machine embodying the present invention, as herein illustrated and hereinafter described, is particularly adapted for use in public utility oflices, such as for instance, one supplying to the public artificial or natural gas, electric power, telephone service, water service, and other analogous businesses.

It is customary with such public utility companies in preparing the monthly statements or bills, to use multiple stub or sectional statements, each section or stub being sent to a different place, and conveying information pertinent to the department or individual for which it is intended. For instance, the bill illustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this application is divided into four sections having for their destinations the collection department, the cashiers department, the bookkeeping department and the remaining section is sent to the customer as his statement. The statement may be variously formed to correspond to the particular line of business in which it is used, and as illustrating one of the many applications of the invention, its use will be described in connection with a public service corporation as one supplying electricity and gas. 1

The information printed on the statements prepared by corporations supplying electricity and gas, usually includes the previous meter reading, the present meter reading, the amount of the commodity consumed, the amount in dollars and cents of the bill due the company, the meter number and the date.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a cash register of the type illustrated, with mechanism capable of printing data in any one or in any group of a plurality of columns, in addition to the usual printing done by machines of this type.

Another object of this invention is to provide means for distributing to and accumulating on a plurality of totalizers with which the machine is provided, the data mentioned above simultaneously with and incident to the preparation of the statement.

Another object is to provide novel means to 5 manually disable the printing mechanism on certain operations of the machine and to automatically render said printing mechanism effective on certain other operations of the machine.

Still another object is to provide novel mechal0 nism for selecting the particular column or columns in which the impression is to be made.

Another object is to provide novel means to trip the impression hammer or hammers selected to make the impression.

Another object is to provide novel means to prevent the printing of zeros to the left of the highest digital denomination.

With'these and incidental objects in view, the invention includes certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form or embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference I to the drawings which'accompany and form a 25 part of this specification.

In said drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective-view of the entire machine encased in its cabinet.

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic plan view of the keyboard of the machine.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken through the machine, immediately to the right of one of the banks of amount keys.

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken through the machine to the left of the first bank of transaction keys.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view of the uppermost keys in the first and second banks of transaction keys, illustrating the manner in which the uppermost key in the second bank of transaction keys controls the detent in the first transaction bank of keys.

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of one of the groups of type wheels together with the rocking frame therefor and the type wheel aligner.

Fig. 'l is a vertical sectional view through the machine to the right of one of the banks of meter number keys.

Fig. 8 is a vertical section taken on line 8-8 of Fig. 33, andhaving the upper printer disabling mechanism superimposed thereon. a

Fig. 9 is a detail side view of a part of the disabling mechanism for the upper printer with dill nosaoaa I the manual disabling means in position to disnism for shifting the ink ribbon, together with able the upperprinter drive.

Fig. is a similar view showing the mechanism adjusted under control of the total lever to permit the upper printer to operate on the second half of a total taking operation.

' Fig. ii is a fragmentary side view of the tothl control lever together with part of the mechanism operated thereby.

Fig. l2 is a detail side view of the ribbon shift mechanism.

Fig. 13 is a diagrammatic view showing frag ments of the upper impression selecting slides, together with one of the rocking ieeler finger frames which selects the upper printing hammar-for operation.

Fig. 14 is a diagrammatic plan view illustrating the manner oi adjusting the type wheels in the several columns simultaneously.

Fig. 15 is a fragmentary plan view of a grou of type wheels, the type wheel gears therefor, the aligners for said wheels.

Fig. 16 is a detail side view of the mechanism which releases the selected hammer to make the impression and restores the hammer after an im= pression has been made. i

Fig. 17 is a detail side view of the mechanism which rocks the type wheel frame to shift the selected type wheel group to its printing position, and which engages the, type wheel aligner with the type wheels. hammer rebound preventer.

Fig. 18 is a detail side view illustrating the mechanism which operates the hammer selecting cam plate.

Figs. lQ-A and 19-h view in rear elevation talren immediately inside the back frame of the printer.

Fig. 20 is a detail view in left elevation of the group of date printing wheels and the means for adjusting these wheels. 7

Fig. 21 is a detail view, partly hrohen away, showing the knobs for adjusting the date prlnt= lng wheels. i

Fig. 22 is a disjoined perspective view of the zero eliminating mechanism.

Fig. 22A is a detail view of a part oi the mechanism shown in Figs. 22, 23, and 2%.

Fig. 23 is a fragmentary side view of a part oi the zero eliminating mechanism in the position assumed when the zeros are not to he elimlnated.

Fig. 24 is a similar view oi the same mecha= nism in the position assumed when the zeros are to be eliminated.

Fig. 25 is a detail perspective view of the hammer selecting mechanism.

Fig. 26 is a fragmentary side view showing one of the hammer selecting devices and the mannor in which it co-operates with the selecting slides.

Fig. 27 is a fragmentary view in left eleva tion of one oi the rocking feeler linger irames showing the manner in which the ieeler fingers co-operatewith the selecting slides.

} Fig. 2815 a view similar to Fig. 26, showing the trating the operation of the hammer rebound preventer.

Fig. 38 is a skeletonized view oi the mecha- This view also illustrates the talren together, form a the printer disabling mechanism.

Fig. 34 is a fragmentary sectional view of the mechanism for feeding the paper and for shitting the paper feed roll.

Fig. 35 is a view in rear elevation of the paper carriage and the runway in which. the carriage slides.

Fig. 36 illustrates one style of statement whic may be prepared inthe present machine.

Fig. 37 is a detail side view of the means which actuates the zero. elimination mechanism.

Fig. 38 is an enlarged detail view of a part of the paper feeding mechanism.

Fig. 39 is a detail view, partly in section, of the mechanism which shifts and-feeds the record materiali Fig. 40 is a detail side view of the mechanism which controls the length of feed of the record material.

. Fig. 47 is a fragmentary view in front elevation of the means which disables the front printer drive.

Fig. it is a. iragmentary side view of the front printer disabling mechanism with the manually operated device" in its intermediate position.

Fig. 49 is a similar view of the same mechanism with the manual control lever in its iorward position.

General description The machine of the present invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, includes, generally, a cash register of a well known type, such as is disclosed in the above-mentioned patents, to the rear and top of which is applied the invention hereinafter set forth, comprising in the main, a printing device operated by and controlled from the machine.

A paper chute located between the machine proper and the new printing mechanism, is adapted to'freccive either a large sheet of record material, such as the ledger sheets used in banks, or a long narrow sheet, such as is commonly used by public utilities companies upon which to prepare the monthly statements to their customers.

The novel printing device includes a plurality of groups of type wheels, set up under control of manipulative keys. Each group of type wheels is provided with a printing hammer individual to its group, with which there is associated mecha msm for selecting and operating the printing hammer.

A sliding carriage located at the top of the machine, accommodates record materials of various sizes and is shiftable longitudinally in the machine for the purpose of properly presenting the fields or columns of the record material to the groupsof type wheels for printing.

Means is provided to control the presentation of the record material to the type wheels. so that several impressions may be made on one line, or

the control may be adjusted to advance the rec- 

